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Bird, Making No Sound


Bird, Making No Sound:  Collected Poems by Carol L. MacKay
ISBN: 9780973984415, 2024, 69 pages, softcover, $13 +$5 shipping within Canada
Intended for adult readers.

The poems in Bird, Making No Sound  were written over the past three decades in BC and Alberta, and in the case of one poem, on a plane over the Atlantic. They are the accumulation of moments, real and imagined, of things said and words almost uttered, and of the many ways time may be marked or reconstructed to move us forward.

From a review by Vanessa Shields, The Ontario Poetry Society Magazine, Verse Afire, June 2024:

"In MacKay's self-published poetry collection Bird, Making No Sound, we are met with a plethora of vivid imagery, sensory language and wordplay. MacKay's poetic voice is steeped in folklore, mythology, especially Norse, inviting the reader into exciting worlds that add layers to the story telling elements of the poetry...MacKay is an excellent poet, consistently gifting readers with her talent for descriptive language."

FINALIST, Sunshine Coast Writers and Editors Society Book Awards, Poetry, 2024.

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About Carol

About Carol


Carol's poems have appeared in literary journals and anthologies in Canada, the US, and Great Britain. She also writes poems and stories for children which frequently appear in children's magazines. She was awarded the 2020 Society of Children's Book Authors & Illustrators (SCBWI) Magazine Merit Award for Poetry. In 2017, her first picture book for children, Lily in the Loft, was published by Your Nickel's Worth Publishing (Regina, SK). It was a finalist in the Next Generation Independent Book Awards in 2019.

Carol's  first full-length collection of poems, Bird, Making No Sound,  was a finalist in the Sunshine Coast Writers and Editors Society (SCWES) Book Awards in 2024.

Her poem, "Nature Changes" appears in the Convergent/Random House anthology, Bless the Earth: A Collection of Poetry for Children to Celebrate and Care for Our World (2024).



 


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